even stronger estimates of the effect of layoffs on health as measured from biomarkers, in particular for glycosylated …The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods …

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative … treatments for alcohol-related disorders and mental health issues. We also find a stunning gender asymmetry: while male job … displacement generates large and persistent health effects, no such dire health consequences are observed after a woman loses her …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … husbandsﾒ job losses have significant negative effects on infant health. They reduce birth weights by approximately four and a …

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel … paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal unemployment has beneficial child health impacts. Analysis of … explain why mothers and fathers' unemployment affect child health so differently …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …